In the good old days, when the brethren were united against the Soviet devil, all shared equally in the drug-running trade, under the benevolent eye of that great lubricator of illicit commerce, the CIA.

Really what you're seeing today, Max, is that this deal that we're seeing today is the lubricator for the deal that we saw made yesterday, when both Porsche and VW announced that they were going to merge under the Volkswagen umbrella to try and create one of the biggest, and possibly soon, the biggest car manufacturing company in the world -- Max.

The first words Julian Wainwright ever spoke, according to his father, Richard Wainwright III, graduate of Yale and grand lubricator of the economic machinery, and Constance Wainwright, Wellesley graduate and descendant of a long family of Pennsylvania Republicans.

Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.